Press Release: Spouses to Teachers Scholarships

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News Brief - 4/24/07

WGU Offers Spouses to Teachers Scholarships to All Military Spouses

SALT LAKE CITY -- Western Governors University (www.wgu.edu) is extending its offering
of supplemental $1,500 scholarships for the Spouses to Teachers program. WGU is
offering the scholarships to all military spouses in any location, beyond the 14
current pilot states where the Spouses-to-Teachers program is offered. Bachelor's
and master's degree programs are offered by WGU's Teachers College.

The scholarship is valued up to $1,500. Scholarship recipients can apply $300 of
the scholarship money per six-month term at WGU, renewable up to five terms. Although
WGU's competency-based model allows students to complete the requirements of a graduate
program in less than two and a half years, the scholarship awards are based on a
reasonable experience of five six-month terms to complete the program. Scholarships
are also available for undergraduate teacher certification degree programs, distributed
at the rate of $300 per six-month term for the first five terms only.

Getting a degree at WGU is convenient and accessible since WGU is an accredited,
private, non-profit online university, which is competency-based. WGU students earn
their degrees by demonstrating their competency and skills in various disciplines
by taking a series of carefully designed assessments. Assessments determine a student's
success rate at WGU, not fixed course schedules.

The university is also a member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC), which
is dedicated to helping service personnel and their families get college degrees.
Spouses to Teachers is managed through the Department of Education and Department
of Defense by the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES).
Visit (www.wgu.edu/spouses) for more information
on eligibility and applications.

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